Verb

• S: (v) treat, handle, do by (interact in a certain way) "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently"
• S: (v) process, treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition) "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals"; "treat an oil spill"
• S: (v) treat, care for (provide treatment for) "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics"
• S: (v) cover, treat, handle, plow, deal, address (act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression) "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"
• S: (v) treat (provide with a gift or entertainment) "Grandmother always treated us to the circus"; "I like to treat myself to a day at a spa when I am depressed"
• S: (v) regale, treat (provide with choice or abundant food or drink) "Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating"; "She treated her houseguests with good food every night"
• S: (v) treat (engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement) "they had to treat with the King"
• S: (v) treat (regard or consider in a specific way) "I treated his advances as a joke"

Adjective

• S: (adj) treated (subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent) "the sludge of treated sewage can be used as fertilizer"; "treated timbers resist rot"; "treated fabrics resist wrinkling"
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• S: (adj) treated (given medical care or treatment) "a treated cold is usually gone in 14 days; if left untreated it lasts two weeks"
• S: (adj) tempered, treated, hardened, toughened (made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment) "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"